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Miscellanies (1785)

(1749-1814)

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VOLUME I.
  
[dedication]
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SYMPATHY, A POEM.
  
TO THE AUTHOR OF SYMPATHY,
  
TO THE AUTHOR OF SYMPATHY
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SYMPATHY.
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BOOK I.
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BOOK II.
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THE TEARS OF GENIUS.
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THE TEARS OF GENIUS,
  
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EPITAPH.
  
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THE ART OF RISING ON THE STAGE.
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CANTO I.
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CANTO II.
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CANTO III.
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POEMS FROM THE ANNUAL REGISTER.
  
THE PARTRIDGES:
  
TO AN INFANT,
  
EXTRACTED FROM VERSES,
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POETICAL PIECES FROM LIBERAL OPINIONS.
  
ELEGY OF A NIGHTINGALE,
  
EPITAPH ON A LAP-DOG.
  
ALMERIA;
  
SOLILOQUIES OF A HIGHWAYMAN.
  
ODE TO A SCHOOL-FELLOW.
  
TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES,
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EPITAPHS.
  
EPITAPH ON ------
  
TO THE MEMORY OF CAPTAIN DRUMMOND, A BRAVE YOUNG OFFICER.
  
EPITAPH
  
SILVANA, THE HIGHLAND SHEPHERDESS.
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BALLAD POEMS FROM EMMA CORBET, AND SONGS.
  
VERSES WRITTEN IN THE MOMENTS OF WAITING AN INTERVIEW.
  
ADDRESS TO A LOCKET.
  
WITH A PRESENT OF SOME PENS SENT TO EMMA.
  
SONG.
  
PLEASING AND TEASING.
  
SONG.
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PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES.
  
PROLOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF CATO.
  
PROLOGUE, WRITTEN FOR MRS. HUNTER, AT BIRMINGHAM.
  
EPILOGUE,
  
AN OCCASIONAL EPILOGUE, WRITTEN FOR MRS. SIDDONS AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
  
EPILOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF THE FATAL INTERVIEW.
  
PROLOGUE FOR THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF MRS. SIMPSON.
  
PROLOGUE TO THE ORPHAN OF CHINA.
  
EPILOGUE.
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VOLUME II.
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PRIZE POEMS,
  
STANZAS, FROM MISS SEWARD'S MONODY ON THE DEATH OF LADY MILLAR.
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THE SHADOWS OF SHAKESPEARE:
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VIII.
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XIII.
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XX.
  
THE SYSTEM OF PYTHAGORAS.
  
THE FAMILY OF TIME:
  
TENDERNESS.
  
DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS.
  
ODE TO THE SUN.
  
CARDS,
  
THERON:
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MISCELLANEOUS VERSES.
  
THE ROSE-TREE, THE GARDENER, AND THE SHRUBS.
  
UPON THE CONNEXION OF THE AUTHOR
  
TO DOCTOR LETTSOM,
  
TO Mrs. SIDDONS's CHILDREN,
  
THE OPENING OF THE NINTH BOOK OF THE HENRIADE TRANSLATED .
  
THE CASKET. TO A FRIEND UNDER PAIN FROM A FEW POINTED OBSERVATIONS.
  
WRITTEN EXTEMPORE
  
TO MISS SAWBRIDGE.
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MRS. SHERIDAN ON HER BROTHER'S LYRE.
  
HER BROTHER's LYRE
  
LINES,
  
TIME's ANSWER.
  
TO MISS C. BRACKENBURY, OF COPT-FOLD-HALL, IN ESSEX.
  
TO THE SAME,
  
A SILFPHID's GREETING,
  
THE TWO LEECHES
  
THE PASSION FLOWER
  
ACREONTIC BURLESQUE.
  
A PORTRAIT.
  
A LOVER'S QUARREL.

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By social pleasure, social profit sway'd,
Some soar to learning, and some stoop to trade.
Studious to gain the love of human kind,
The social sage at midnight stores his mind,
Robs weary nature of her just repose,
Nor drinks the dew that bathes the morning rose,
Nor when the sun to Cynthia gives the night,
Eyes the soft blessing of her tender light,
But o'er the taper leans his pensive head,
And for the living communes with the dead.
The dusky artizan, his effort made;
Asserts his rights, and leaves the sickly shade;
At eve he quits the spot where glooms annoy,
And seeks the bosom of domestic joy;
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The social faggot, and the light repast,
Await to cheer him when his toils are past.
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